Oneoff. What impact do the small volumes of pedigreed and organic grains have on the pool returns for other farms? Almost none because the volumes are very small. Claiming that these "special deals" negatively impact all farmers is silly.
Maybe you don't want to see anybody who works hard growing pedigreed or organic grains get ahead? The increased value of both these markets come from the market itself not any special treatment from the CWB. Are you not an advocate for letting the market decide where value exits?
Further if you are so worried about special treatment for some farms and not others then you are really going to like the open market where the larger farms will cut better deals than the smaller farms on pricing and inputs. And where the railways will play a dominant role in deciding who can offer better prices based on their service level or lack of service to small grain companies.
Since you are an open market advocate, I doubt that you are really concerned about fairness otherwise you would be more concerned about the loss of the CWB and the ability of farmers to have some impact on rail allocation, producers cars, and the marketing of their grain within the CWB.
If you think that somehow the grain marketing world is going to be more fair without the farmer run CWB you are living in a fantasy world.
Several generations of farmers and various Conservative and Liberal Governments supported the CWB over the years. Do you think they suppported it because they were all socialists?
Politically times have changed and so have rural communities. It is all about taking care of our own self interests first and who the hell cares about what happens to the other guy or our communities. Working together to improve our communities and share the bounty of our land is a thing of the past.
The new mantra is I love money and greed is good.
Maybe you don't want to see anybody who works hard growing pedigreed or organic grains get ahead? The increased value of both these markets come from the market itself not any special treatment from the CWB. Are you not an advocate for letting the market decide where value exits?
Further if you are so worried about special treatment for some farms and not others then you are really going to like the open market where the larger farms will cut better deals than the smaller farms on pricing and inputs. And where the railways will play a dominant role in deciding who can offer better prices based on their service level or lack of service to small grain companies.
Since you are an open market advocate, I doubt that you are really concerned about fairness otherwise you would be more concerned about the loss of the CWB and the ability of farmers to have some impact on rail allocation, producers cars, and the marketing of their grain within the CWB.
If you think that somehow the grain marketing world is going to be more fair without the farmer run CWB you are living in a fantasy world.
Several generations of farmers and various Conservative and Liberal Governments supported the CWB over the years. Do you think they suppported it because they were all socialists?
Politically times have changed and so have rural communities. It is all about taking care of our own self interests first and who the hell cares about what happens to the other guy or our communities. Working together to improve our communities and share the bounty of our land is a thing of the past.
The new mantra is I love money and greed is good.
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